Firsts

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Jan 14 10:17:22 1998

At 09:50 AM 1/14/98 EST, you wrote:
>I own a grid laptop; a compass II 1129 to be exact. I got if from my brother
>who claimed it came from some nasa engineer and the computer played some
major
>part in shape shuttle flight/development or whatever. mine works fine, and
>even has some apps in some extra roms. it's not much of a portable machine
>though because it still has to run on ac power. gotta love the bouncing balls
>screen saver though!

Never saw that screensaver on my Compass 1100. Mfg date on it is 1982, no
internal drives, no extra ROMs either. The 1100 used bubble memory. I still
haven't found a good explanation on what bubble memory is. Anyone know? I
do know that when I got it, there were files in there created back in '85
that were still there, and I didn't see any battery inside to speak of, so
I guess this is a feature of bubble memory? I deleted files and created
some new ones and they saved fine. Trippy.


- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
Received on Wed Jan 14 1998 - 10:17:22 GMT